Band 7 Discharge Liaison Nurse

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Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a qualified nurse for the Children’s Rapid Response Team. The role requires excellent communication and teamwork skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality nursing care to children to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. Flexible hours may be available, and candidates are encouraged to visit the team prior to applying.

Benefits

Full NHS terms and conditions

Attractive relocation payment

Discounts for local and national retailers

Dedicated well-being services

Flexible working where possible

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children with very complex healthcare needs.
• Ability to manage change within an NHS environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of child protection and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Support the Clinical co-ordinator with managing the Children’s Rapid Response Service.
• Promote early discharge for children and young people.
• Allocate workload of a team appropriately.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Problem Solving

Education

Degree or equivalent qualification

ENB 998

Independent supplementary Nurse Prescriber

Job description

Employer Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Lansdowne Health Centre Town Birmingham Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 08/06/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated nurse who is passionate to work with in the Children’s Rapid Response Team (RR) to ensure high quality, specialist nursing care to children and families in their own home. In order to prevent inappropriate hospital admission/attendances and shortening length of hospital stay whilst providing greater choice to families around chosen place of care.

The successful applicant will work as part of a well-established dynamic team who provide specialist advice and support to children, young people and their families and all members of the health care teams involved in the child/young person’s care. You will work along side Children’s Community nursing (CCN) and Palliative Care Teams (PC).

Full time/part time/flexible hours of working will be considered at interview.

We would encourage anyone considering applying for this post to visit the team prior to application and interview and to discuss the role withTeam Leader – Rebecca Carless on 07784 007 462 [e-mail] or the Clinical Service Manager - Rachael Williams on 07974 785 098 or [e-mail].

Main duties of the job

You will work very closely with the Co-Ordinator for Children’s Community Nursing and Rapid Response to ensure a high standard of care is offered to children/young people. You will support the Clinical co-ordinator with the clinical and professional management of the Children’s Rapid Response Service (CRRS) to ensure safe and effective care delivery. Overseeing the effective and efficient use of skills and resources to ensure the team and the service is organised to meet the needs of the patients and their families.

You will be proactive in promoting early discharge of children and young people already known to the CCN and PC Teams, reducing the length of hospital stay. You will work with the Children’s Rapid Response team and acute teams to identify children and young people that could be cared for at home where it would be clinically safe to do so.

You will be expected at times of extreme pressure within the acute to work as directed to facilitate a reduced length of stay for children and young people that are potentially not known already to the CCN and PC Team.

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

IMPORTANT

• Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Name

Job title

Team Leader for Children’s Community Nursing, palliative Care and Rapid Response.

Email address

Telephone number

0121 245 5775/ 07784 007 462

Person specification

Qualifications / training

• Degree or equivalent qualification
• ENB 998 (Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice) or equivalen
• Independent supplementary Nurse Prescriber.
• Clinical assessment course/ Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Experience

• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team including planning of complex discharges
• Evidence of innovative and evidence based practice
• Experience working with children with very complex healthcare needs/life limiting/threatening illnesses and End of Life.
• Extensive experience of working with children and young people with very complex healthcare or palliative care needs.
• Ability to allocate workload of a team appropriately maintaining patient safety and maximising clinical resources
• Evidence of multi-disciplinary working within a community setting

Skills/Knowledge

• In depth knowledge, understanding and experience of managing child protection and risk management issues
• A sound knowledge of discharge pathways aligned with Trust and National policies
• Demonstrate a range of managerial skills in relation to staff and resources.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work under pressure supporting difficult conversations.
• Ability to co-ordinate and allocate workloads, alongside duty rotas and safe staffing guidelines.
• Manages a complex, varied and often unpredictable workload, often with conflicting demands and pressures in a professional and structured manner
• Work as a member of a team and as an autonomous practitioner.
• Ensure care is evidence based and clinical guidelines are adhered to, developing further pathways to enhance safe care delivery.
• Provide leadership and direction to the other members of the team
• To be able to lead and participate in audit to monitor standards of care and service improvement.
• Demonstrate knowledge relating to child protection issues and procedures
• Evidence of assessment skills and use of the nursing process and nurse models
• Regularly utilises literacy, numeracy and analytical skills in the compilation of reports and the management of information/data
• Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of NMC Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional practice
• Ability to demonstrate individual responsibility in respect of Health and Safety
• Ability to problem solve acquiring and utilising information from diverse sources to identify problems, solutions evaluating and recommending and implementing actions where appropriate.
• Understanding the impact different cultures and religions may have on the management of children/young people with complex healthcare needs.

Personal Qualities

• Ability to demonstrate a commitment to team working.
• Demonstrate an ability to be flexible and able to participate in a changing NHS environment.
• Ability to learn and apply knowledge appropriately
• Ability to manage change within an NHS environment
• Positive attitude to service development of Children’ Community Services
• Able to cope working in a stressful environment with parents/carers of children/young people with complex healthcare needs including palliative and end of life care.
• Demonstrates energy and is resilient in the face of potential challenge or barriers to the best care that an be provided
• Take account of own behaviour and its effect on others

Other Job Requirements

• Access to independent means of transport
• Ability to work flexible hours, evenings, weekends, Bank holidays.

Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme

BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible.

We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.

Promoting Workforce Equality

In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.

The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.

Flexible Working

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.

In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!

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Benefits of working for us:

• Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
• Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
• Discounts for local and national retailers
• Dedicated well-being services for all employees
• Flexible working where possible

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Rebecca Carless Job title Team Leader for Children's Community Nursing Telephone number 07784 007 462